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Parents who provide learning support at home can improve their child’s literacy and emotional development, regardless of their class or educational background.
Under new legislation, children from low-income families will receive just 12 hours of early learning support a week, adding to the risk of these children falling behind their peers at school.
Despite big changes in childcare policy at the end of the 20th century, we’re asking many of the same questions as in the 1960s.
We shouldn’t just be blaming the middle classes for snapping up all the free childcare spots.
Cultural vouchers for poor kids could help them get better A Levels.
All children with early language problems are at increased risk of struggling at school, and having reduced employment opportunities and life chances, but the risk of early language problems is disproportionately…
Lying is often seen as bad behaviour in children. Fairy tales and folk stories, from Aesop’s Peter who cried wolf to Washington’s cherry tree tell children to be honest and never lie. But what can we do…
Rookie New York mayor Bill de Blasio – poster child for America’s insurgent progressives – has promised to rewrite “a tale of two cities” by seeking to narrow gaps between the haves and the have-nots across…
Over the last 20 years, early childhood education and childcare for the under-fives has become a major policy priority in the UK. Get more mothers into work, it’s argued, and we can start to close the…
The recent announcement by the new secretary of state for education Nicky Morgan that toddlers must be taught British values is the latest in a chain of events precipitated by the Trojan Horse affair over…
When in 1991 an American newspaper named a preschool in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in the 10 best schools of the world, the early childhood centres in this city gained international attention. So what did this…
The recent announcement by assistant education minister Sussan Ley that the 15-hour preschool entitlement introduced by the ALP in 2013 may be wound back to 12 hours signals a worrying trend in Australian…
Learning certainly starts at birth, and some believe even before. Care by parents in the first three years of a child’s life is absolutely critical in order to learn how to walk, talk, self-regulate, and…
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Education Policy, Victoria University
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Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Victoria University
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Assistant Professor of Education Finance and Policy, University of Washington
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Director of Research and Development, Pivot Professional Learning; and Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Deakin University
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Director, Peter Noonan Policy Impact Program, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Economics and Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change, University of Essex
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Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, City St George's, University of London